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...speeds across the last sliver of Sinai territory, 28 miles wide, which Israel is to return to Egypt next year. The car cruises on through the rolling Israeli heartland and into the steep hills leading to Jerusalem. Soon the chunky stone fortifications of the Old City loom in the twilight. It has taken nine hours-and more than 30 years-to get there from Cairo...
...request from a home-town girl," says Delaney. "I had an interview with the president of Case the next afternoon." Correspondent Christopher Redman visited the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra to discuss arts-funding cuts and came upon it rehearsing excerpts from Wagner's Götterdämmerung (Twilight of the Gods). Says Redman: "The music seemed painfully appropriate...
After 26 years, the Soviet soldiers are a fully familiar part of the Polish landscape. The scenes on these pages, photographed by Romano Cagnoni, show how the Soviet presence is seen and felt in many ways, from the headlights of a military convoy cutting through the twilight, to the scowling face of a passing officer, to young troops chatting on a Legnica street along with other window-shoppers...
Simon has written funny plays and films, and will again. Jay Sandrich directed TV's finest comedy show, Mary Tyler Moore; he may someday learn to shape character and situation to fit the big screen. Goldie Hawn will remain the put-upon pixie into her twilight years. And for Chevy Chase, as for the most miserable sinner, there is always hope of redemption. One wonders, though, about Charles Grodin. Here, as in Heaven Can Wait and It's My Turn, this marvelous comic actor filches attention from the stars with his maddeningly reasonable response to every crisis...
...three hours the crowd swelled with new arrivals: miners from Silesia wearing their traditional long black coats and plumed czaka, railway workers from Lublin, bus drivers from Pulawy. Hundreds of thousands strong, they spilled out into side streets, waiting patiently in the early twilight while the tender strains of a Chopin piano concerto wafted from a loudspeaker. They had come to Gdansk to honor the memory of 45 workers killed by police and army bullets ten years before in riots along the Baltic coast. At long last a monument had been built: three slender trunks of steel crowned by crosses...